Skytte Prize Laureates

2023

The prize committee’s citation for awarding the Johan Skytte Prize to Martha Finnemore and Alexander Wendt reads as follows: “For having formulated and empirically demonstrated the fruitfulness of constructivism, thus renewing and deepening the understanding of international politics.”

2020

Peter J. Katzenstein is awarded the prize for: furthering the understanding of how history, culture, and norms shape economies, as well as national and global security policy.

2017

This year’s Prize was awarded to Professor Amartya Sen for his lifelong achievement that “combines insights into human vulnerability with knowledge about the potential of democratic political power to redress and relieve this deprivation.”

2014

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2011

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2008

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2005

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2002

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1999

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1996

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2022

Robert E. Goodin is awarded the prize for an impressive volume of work in which he “with acuity and success endeavored to blend political philosophy with empirical political science to increase the understanding of how decent and dignified societies can be shaped.”

2019

Professor Margaret Levi at Stanford University and University of Washington is awarded the prize for: "having laid the foundations of our understanding of why citizens accept state coercion, by combining theoretical acumen and historical knowledge."

2016

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2013

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2010

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2007

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2004

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2001

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1998

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1995

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2021

David D. Laitin is awarded the prize for his “original and objective explanation of how politics shapes cultural strategies in heterogeneous societies.”

2018

Jane Mansbridge, Charles F. Adams Professor in Political Leadership and Democratic Values at Harvard University, is awarded the 2018 Johan Skytte Prize in Political Science for “having shaped our understanding of democracy in its direct and representative forms, with incisiveness, deep commitment and feminist theoy.”

2015

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2012

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2009

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2006

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2003

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2000

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1997

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